| 1 | Hartmut Briesenick | GDR | |
20,19 |
| 2 | Valeriy Voykin | URS | |
19,54 |
| 3 | Richard Bruch | SWE | |
19,50 |
| 4 | Wladyslaw Komar | POL | 19,43 | |
| 5 | Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg | GDR | 19,32 | |
| 6 | Ralf Reichenbach | FRG | 18,65 | |
| 7 | Pierre Colnard | FRA | 18,57 | |
| 8 | Seppo Simola | FIN | 18,19 | |
| 9 | Tadeusz Sadza | POL | 18,13 | |
| 10 | Geoffrey Capes | GBR | 17,84 | |
| 11 | Jaroslav Brabec | TCH | 17,82 | |
| 12 | Valcho Stoyev | BUL | 17,80 | |
| 13 | Arnjolt Beer | FRA | 17,24 | |
| 14 | Yves Brouzet | FRA | 17,12 | |
| 15 | Adrian Gagea | ROM | 16,60 |